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My best friend's mum passed away two days ago, and I just knew it this morning when I was in a meeting with friends.

She was one of the strongest women I've ever know. She raised two kids by her own hand, while worked hard in the military. She went to meet my mum when my dad passed away and offered so much help to our family. She forever inspires me.

This is the third time I lost important people in my life since I moved to the US.

My high school best friend passed away in the first month when I arrived in Michigan. The maternal mortality rate is high in Indonesia. My friend passed away when she was delivering her third baby. I had not talked to her for a while, our last conversation was when she told me that when we were in the high school, I always wanted to be a journalist. But I never knew what she wanted to be. She was the smartest, she can be anything, but she was not sure.

By the end of last year, I lost a colleague, one of the most dedicated people I knew in human righ…

The Indonesian government claims that an additional 75 Gigawatt of power stations are needed over the next ten years to meet the power needs of the country. In order to fulfill the need, the government estimates that they will need to build a power plant that can produce 35 gigawatt, over the next five years as the first step. The state owned enterprise on electricity, PLN, will build 15 gigawatt, or 43% of the plan, and the private sector will lead the development of the remaining.
The new power plant will largely rely on coal, an energy source of which Indonesia has vast reserves. It would stimulate coal demand, increase consumption, and help the country’s growing economy. The President Director of PLN also states that coal is considered the cheapest power plant investment in the country.
Last year, PwC responded to this assumption critically. Based on data on the Indonesian coal reserves and predictions of the coal consumption for the additional 20 gigawatt coal power plant, Indone…

This blog post is just another typical Rika's jokes. But if you ever said this to any 'exotic' looking human being, please don't do that anymore.

- You are pretty FOR ASIAN.
Sure, because post-colonialist, mainstream media beauty standard will not allow us, Asian, to be as pretty as blonde white women.

- You speak English so well, did you go to undergrad here in the US?
Yeah, they don't speak English in any other country, only in the US- This is amazing that you grew up in a Muslim family, in the largest Muslim country in the world, but you are so open-minded.
Tell me again about your religious American family that is anti-LGBT, anti-immigration, and how you argue with them.

- But it's very stupid that people have to wear hijab in a hot and humid country like Indonesia. They must be oppressed.
Why people wear mid-drift and mini-skirt in the middle of a freezing winter night in Michigan? They must be oppressed.- Have you ever see a skyscraper? Do you have tall buil…